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A new weekend has arrived, and today, you can save big on Persona 3 Reload, Pikmin 4, The Adventures of Elliot, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Star Wars Zero Company, and more. Check out our top picks for Saturday, October 24, below. Persona 3 Reload (Switch 2) for $24.99 Persona 3 Reload Switch 2 copies are available at Amazon for $24.99 this weekend. This is a pretty great price for an expansive RPG that you can easily sink 100 hours into. The Switch 2 version had a rocky launch with frame pacing issues, but those have been resolved. Atlus also did add support for 60 FPS in docked mode. The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales On Sale for the First Time The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales was released this June, and for the first time, you can pick up a copy of the game on sale! Amazon has copies for all platforms discounted to $44.99 today, which is a great price for this action-based HD-2D game. In our 8/10 review , we wrote, "The Adventures of Elliot: The Millenn...

Dead by Daylight fans are beside themselves after Behaviour Interactive announced that all Chucky content would no longer be available to purchase starting next month. The developer behind the popular asymmetrical horror game confirmed plans to pull the Chucky Chapter from sale in posts shared across social media. The message followed rumors that the possessed killer doll would soon be removed from the game, with the official statement promising that those who have purchased related content will be able to use it even after it is removed from shelves starting November 24, 2026. "We welcomed The Good Guy out of his box and into The Fog nearly three years ago, but it's now time for the Chucky Chapter to leave the shelf," Behaviour said . "On November 24, 2026, the Chapter and its associated content will be removed from in-game and first-party stores. Any content unlocked before that date will remain available to use in-game." As detailed in an FAQ post shared b...

The Dungeon Crawler Carl series has blown up this year in many ways, but it's the incredibly fast expansion into merchandise has been truly impressive for the franchise. There are T-shirts, graphic novels, action figures, tabletop games, and even a halloween costume available to buy already, but now you can add jigsaw puzzles to that list. Spotted on Reddit yesterday , there is a new 500-piece DCC puzzle now available at Barnes & Noble Stores. It's called "Meet the Crawlers" and features a full cast of familiar characters from the books, including Carl and Donut. Surprisingly, this isn't even the first official Dungeon Crawler Carl jigsaw puzzle. There's a 250-piece that was spotted at Barnes & Noble about eight months ago from the same brand, Kingdom of Threads. So if you've been wanting to combine your love of puzzling with your love of Dungeon Crawler Carl, you've apparently got options now. With the popularity of the upcoming tabletop ada...

Mass Effect fans are calling for a boycott of all EA products and services in protest of the company closing down BioWare and canceling the next Mass Effect game. It’s a rough time for Mass Effect fans. On October 21, EA announced its plans to shut down BioWare , a 30-year-old studio that spearheaded RPGs in the West with titles like Dragon Age, Jade Empire, Baldur’s Gate, and of course, Mass Effect . Players were eagerly awaiting news of the next game in BioWare’s beloved sci-fi franchise — but EA shut that down, too, revealing in a statement that the project was officially canceled. In the two days since then, fans of BioWare and the Mass Effect series have gathered together to call for action, begging EA to at least sell off BioWare’s IP to other studios rather than letting them languish. In fact, tensions have become so strained that players are now calling for an outright boycott of EA’s products and services until something is done. On Reddit, several threads are rallying Mass Ef...

Valve has released a list of the 20 most-played Steam Next Fest demos so far, with the event running through this weekend and concluding through Monday, October 26 at 10am PT/1pm ET. The top-20 list includes quite the eclectic mix of games, from comedic co-op adventures to more mechanically-deep action and survival affairs. Check out the list below, and be sure to try the demos out for the ones you like as soon as possible before this edition of Steam Next Fest ends. In no particular order, the top 20 are: Worst Class Ever Probably Stolen - Cyberpunk Shopkeeper Sim ArcheAge Chronicles Find the Needle Fart Together Character House - Desktop Companion Frostrail Loftia just volleyball Abyssal Lapidary Mortuus Dumpster Gang HANDS OVER Haunted Paws Emberville No Body No Problem! Deadzone Rogue 2 Wyldheart Grr Grr Gnomes Never Be Alone Some of these you might be familiar with, and some you might not, and that's part of the fun of Steam Next Fest! IGN readers might have ...

Key Preview Takeaways: Visually, Wo Long 2 is a beautiful game. No stamina gauge means faster action. I love that the combat system encouraged me to be aggressive and chase perfection. I have a confession to make, friends: I’ve never played the original Wo Long. I know, I know. Dust off your pitchforks, light your torches. I have it coming in the same way that we all do. “How could you, Will? You’re an action game guy!” Listen, I’m of the opinion that Team Ninja is one of the best to ever do it. Maybe even the best . But everybody’s got blind spots. That’s what I told myself as a giant spider thing with weird arms named Wugu who I’m sure would have been easier if I’d played the original smashed me into the ground for the umpteenth time. I was also coming into the fight cold. My demo had been split by an interview with producer Mazakazu Hirayama and development producer Masaaki Yamagiwa. Great for this preview. Bad for me. But the beauty of Team Ninja’s games has always been that they a...

Has Magic: The Gathering ever been as popular as it is right now? It feels like the long-running card game is having a bit of a moment in terms of bringing fresh players in via its ever-growing roster of Universes Beyond crossover properties. Rightly or wrongly, that means there are more people looking to build collections, whether they’re playing or collecting the cards, and it just so happens that Amazon has rolled out some price cuts on Play Booster Boxes - including the Star Trek one at 26% off just weeks before it even launches . It’s worth reminding you that these are Play Booster Boxes, as opposed to Collector Booster ones. Aside from a massive difference in price, Collector Boosters are where you’ll find the most valuable cards in each set. With that caveat out of the way, here are the best Play Booster Box deals we’ve found so far. Save On Magic: The Gathering Play Booster Boxes Sure, that Star Trek deal is great, but it’s not the only Universes Beyond property seeing a price ...

Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival has been a smash hit, says Saber Interactive CEO Matthew Karch in a post on LinkedIn, and it’s the first of a “series” of releases from the studio that will improve how it makes games in the future. Hellraiser: Revival has proven to be a smashing success, in spite of — or, perhaps because of — its super-spicy content. The game doesn’t skirt around the sex, blood, and gore that defined the source material, causing some content creators to get permanently banned despite taking pains to censor their playthroughs. In an October 19 LinkedIn post, Saber Interactive CEO Matthew Karch praised the Hellraiser development team, revealing the title has been performing “extremely well on PC and console” since its October 8 release. He also speculated that AAA titles with massive budgets and lengthy development timelines won’t be sustainable in the industry for much longer (if, indeed, they are right now), instead positing that AA games based on established IPs w...

If 2025's Game of the Year , Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, has been on your gaming wishlist, there's no need to wait for Black Friday sales to grab it at a discount. Amazon currently has its physical PlayStation 5 copy marked down to a new all-time low price of $34.65 - 31% off its list price - which you can get by ticking the coupon box on the store page ( see it here ). This is the only way you'll be able to see this deal price at checkout, so don't forget to check the box before adding it to your cart. The coupon is also only available for a few more days, until October 26, so the clock is ticking to pick it up at this record-low price . Additionally, it's only available for PS5 users. If you're hoping to grab it for Xbox, you'll unfortunately have to pay full price. If you are able to take advantage of it, though, this is quite an exciting deal to have pop up before Black Friday sales kick off. It beats where we saw it during Prime Day earlier this yea...

It appears that Rockstar may be preparing to sell beer brands from GTA 6 in real life. As spotted by iGrandTheftAuto , labels for three GTA-related beer brands have been approved by the US Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. The labels include brands that have been featured in previous GTA titles, such as Patriot Beer and Pißwasser (commonly known as Pisswasser). There's also a new brand known as No Mames Vice City, which features a little dog wearing sunglasses and a Vice City chain on the label. These are being produced by a Florida brewery known as Tripping Animals Brewing. For alcohol afficianados, No Mames Vice City lager will have a 6% ABV, while the other two will be 4.2% ABV, which is identical to Bud Light's ABV. With all of that said, we have no idea exactly when or where these beverages will be sold. They may be exclusive to bars in and around Miami, as Rockstar Games has completely taken over the city with GTA 6 ads . Citizens have spotted various in-universe...

Two Umamusume concerts in Los Angeles have been canceled after workers could not get their visas approved in time for the event, leaving American fans distraught. On October 18, the official Umamusume: Pretty Derby Twitter/X account announced that staffers working the shows — scheduled for October 22 and 23 — were having difficulties securing their travel visas. At the time, it did not cancel the events, but warned concertgoers that this may impact the festivities. The possibility that these concerts would be canceled sparked concern among the game’s fanbase, with many joking (or perhaps being fully serious) that this event might politically “radicalize” them, given the extremely long wait times for visas in the United States right now. The next day, Cygames confirmed that the Los Angeles concerts had been officially canceled, offering refunds to fans who’d purchased both on-site viewing tickets and streaming tickets to watch the show remotely. Responses to fans who made travel plan...

Rockstar Games gave GTA 6 s' developers so much freedom to add cool details that not even the studio's top executives are aware of everything in the game. The latest behind-the-scenes information on GTA 6 comes from Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier, who expanded upon his trip to the Rockstar North offices in Edinburgh, Scotland, after previously sharing other highlights last week . One of the more noteworthy bits shared in his 18-minute video's runtime is that the team who spent a decade or so making next month's Grand Theft Auto game had quite a bit of freedom to add details simply because they thought they might be cool. Schreier said he'd guess that "not even top developers" at Rockstar know every tiny detail added to Vice City and its wealth of NPCs. He noted that giving large teams the autonomy to flesh out every street corner isn't too uncommon for open-world games. In the case of GTA 6 and its huge budget and lengthy development time, that ...

Two weeks ago, a Tekken player created a mod that allowed users to play the game online with rollback netcode, sparking a community-wide debate between Western players and competitors based in Japan and Korea. The mod, made by a community member named Ekspym, became an instant hit among Tekken players, reaching more than 10,000 players as of October 17 and a recorded 4,547 downloads as of October 15. According to the mod’s readme, “the package contains neither the PS3 firmware nor the game,” though it acts essentially like an emulator. It sparked a viral conversation regarding the current state of Tekken 8 (with many players seeming to prefer Tekken 6 out of the two games), but perhaps more surprisingly, received massive pushback from players in Japan and Korea. One of the loudest voices speaking out against this mod was celebrated fighting game pro Dogura. “The pirated version of Tekken 6? That thing crosses the line way too much, and I'm horrified that no one overseas is rais...

Last December, co-creator of Call of Duty and co-founder of Respawn Entertainment, Vince Zampella, passed away in a car accident . He left behind an enduring legacy as one of the people who shaped first-person shooters and changed video games forever. This week saw the release of Modern Warfare 4, the latest entry in a series that Zampella led the inception of almost 20 years ago in 2007. His contribution is honoured by his former studio, Infinity Ward, in the credits for its campaign. Upon completion of the game’s final mission, which takes place midway through the credits, his name and the others belonging to those who have sadly passed away during its production are the first to appear on screen. These include Rainer Yang, Matt Canale, and Preetam Raj Bordoloi, who also helped craft Call of Duty over the years. Zampella was instrumental in turning COD into the megafranchise it is today, initially leaving EA after leading design on Medal of Honor: Allied Assault to create the series,...

One Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 campaign player has already finished YOLO mode, an ultra hard setting with realistic damage, where you go right back to the start when you die. Unlocked once you’ve completed the campaign on any difficulty, YOLO mode is the real test of your COD skills. Warning! Spoilers for the Modern Warfare 4 campaign follow: The player, Lost-Equivalent2352 on Reddit , said they managed to beat YOLO mode by taking advantage of their AI allies. “My technique was staying behind a wall for several minutes so that my dumb allies shoot at the enemies,” they said. They would also use flashbangs and grenades to mop up the stragglers, limiting the chance the enemies could one-shot them. It took them around 20 hours to finish the successful run. According to Lost-Equivalent2352, one of the toughest elements of the run was the mission “Retreat.” The nighttime mission charts the fall of Hajin, covering the tactical withdrawal of South Korean troops. Because it takes place d...

Silent Hill developer Bloober Team wants to make physical versions of its games "for as long as possible." Studio CEO Piotr Babieno opened up about the company's appreciation for physical media and collectibles during an interview with GamesRadar . He started his thoughts by touching on how the gaming landscape and player desires have changed as technology has advanced over the years, explaining that "we have reached a moment where you can't really do much more" in terms of visual and auditory fidelity. "Like, OK, the game can have a slightly higher resolution and maybe better lighting and whatever, but will it make it a more engaging game? I don't think so," Babieno said. The CEO for the studio behind the Silent Hill 2 remake and its in-development original Silent Hill remake also talked about how stats show "the majority of players are playing on hardware which is five, seven years old, if not older." He continued, saying, "B...

A new weekend has arrived, and today, you can save big on Pikmin 4, The Adventures of Elliot, Doom: The Dark Ages, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Star Wars Zero Company, and more. Check out our top picks for Sunday, October 18, below. The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales On Sale for the First Time The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales was released this June, and for the first time, you can pick up a copy of the game on sale! Amazon has copies for all platforms discounted to $44.99 today, which is a great price for this action-based HD-2D game. In our 8/10 review , we wrote, "The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales isn’t without blemishes, but it’s still a great action-adventure game that continues to prove why the HD-2D art style is among the best around." Pikmin 4 for $39.88 Walmart has digital copies of Pikmin 4 for Nintendo Switch on sale for $39.88 today. This is just in time before next month's release of Pikmin 4 – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + ...